impend
verb (used without object)
to be imminent; be about to happen.
had impended
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past perfectof impend.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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I recollected the confinement I had undergone, and the fate that had impended over me, with horror.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin
Afterwards they began to converse in disjointed words, as people do over whom had impended a terrible danger and whom only an accident had saved.
From In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz
All were animated by a new spirit in France, an obstinate calm, a determination to see this thing through, to end forever the fear of Prussian invasion which for so many years had impended.
From Face to Face with Kaiserism by James W. (James Watson) Gerard
